A Kachina by Any Other Name: Linguistically Contextualizing Native
... is used today. My research is a preliminary exploration into linguistically contextualizing Native American collections. This paper addresses many supporting concepts, potential concerns, and workable methods for bringing attention to language in museums. Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, and other ...
... is used today. My research is a preliminary exploration into linguistically contextualizing Native American collections. This paper addresses many supporting concepts, potential concerns, and workable methods for bringing attention to language in museums. Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, and other ...
Intuitions and Competence in Formal Semantics
... a flourishing field, but not longer the dominant paradigm, being in the company of corpus-based investigations, including typological and historical databases, work that extensively uses computational modelling, and so on. With this diversity in theories and approaches comes one in methodologies. An ...
... a flourishing field, but not longer the dominant paradigm, being in the company of corpus-based investigations, including typological and historical databases, work that extensively uses computational modelling, and so on. With this diversity in theories and approaches comes one in methodologies. An ...
Exploring Intercultural Interactions in Multicultural Contexts:
... expressed through lexical content are included” in this level (Gumperz, 1992, p. 233). Not only words uttered, but also contexts, prosody, and syntactic and lexical choices signaled in the interactions should be assessed. Examinations of the inferencing process at the sequential level should focus o ...
... expressed through lexical content are included” in this level (Gumperz, 1992, p. 233). Not only words uttered, but also contexts, prosody, and syntactic and lexical choices signaled in the interactions should be assessed. Examinations of the inferencing process at the sequential level should focus o ...
Kinship Expressions and Terms
... A great milestone in kinship study, still widely mined for data, was Morgan’s (1870) analytical compendium of term/kin-type mappings from American Indian languages based on detailed questionnaires filled out by local correspondents (Trautmann, 1987). In interdisciplinary museum expeditions, such as ...
... A great milestone in kinship study, still widely mined for data, was Morgan’s (1870) analytical compendium of term/kin-type mappings from American Indian languages based on detailed questionnaires filled out by local correspondents (Trautmann, 1987). In interdisciplinary museum expeditions, such as ...
melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition
... that it is precisely where Melanesian Pidgin has incorporated grammatical patterns common to the substratum languages, as in the pronominal system and the marking of transitivity, that it has acquired syntactic complexity unusual in pidgins and creoles. These hypotheses have predictably been critici ...
... that it is precisely where Melanesian Pidgin has incorporated grammatical patterns common to the substratum languages, as in the pronominal system and the marking of transitivity, that it has acquired syntactic complexity unusual in pidgins and creoles. These hypotheses have predictably been critici ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... 65). Kant was a classic representative of the Enlightenment whereas Herder marked the beginning of the Counter Enlightenment in Germany, a movement called Romanticism. Although Kant was the first to use the word anthropology in his work for a new ‘science of man’, it was ultimately Herder who determ ...
... 65). Kant was a classic representative of the Enlightenment whereas Herder marked the beginning of the Counter Enlightenment in Germany, a movement called Romanticism. Although Kant was the first to use the word anthropology in his work for a new ‘science of man’, it was ultimately Herder who determ ...
A brief history of Stylistics
... in arguing for a particular view of a text, because, like the slip 'twixt cup and lip, there are often logical gaps between the claim and the quotation intended to support it. In other words, stylisticians think that intuition is not enough and that we should analyze the text in detail and take care ...
... in arguing for a particular view of a text, because, like the slip 'twixt cup and lip, there are often logical gaps between the claim and the quotation intended to support it. In other words, stylisticians think that intuition is not enough and that we should analyze the text in detail and take care ...
introduction to contrastive linguistics
... throughout the 50s and 60s - and extend its scope so as to describe the differences, as well as the similarities between two or more linguistic systems, both cross-linguistically and intralinguistically, and both synchronically and diachronically. Thus, on the diachronic level, issues regarding the ...
... throughout the 50s and 60s - and extend its scope so as to describe the differences, as well as the similarities between two or more linguistic systems, both cross-linguistically and intralinguistically, and both synchronically and diachronically. Thus, on the diachronic level, issues regarding the ...
Building a Corpus in Linguistic Anthropology
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
Anthropology 104 Traditional Cultures of the World
... holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic any human group should be studied in its entirety, finding connections among economics, politics, religion, language, etc. ...
... holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic any human group should be studied in its entirety, finding connections among economics, politics, religion, language, etc. ...
“Code Switching” in Sociocultural Linguistics
... accused justly, of failure to look beyond the pretty patterns of their subject matter, should become aware of what their science may mean for the interpretation of human conduct in general. Whether they like it or not, they must become increasingly concerned with the many anthropological, sociologic ...
... accused justly, of failure to look beyond the pretty patterns of their subject matter, should become aware of what their science may mean for the interpretation of human conduct in general. Whether they like it or not, they must become increasingly concerned with the many anthropological, sociologic ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... However, this innuence is often not fully recognized or acknowledged, or reflected terminologically. This is undesirable, not only because it is often not easy to recognize the domains where research on phraseology has left its marks, but also because it renders the overlap of assumptions, concepts, ...
... However, this innuence is often not fully recognized or acknowledged, or reflected terminologically. This is undesirable, not only because it is often not easy to recognize the domains where research on phraseology has left its marks, but also because it renders the overlap of assumptions, concepts, ...
BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS: LINGUISTIC
... our everyday language. So one may read that something appears in consciousness, something is in the field of consciousness, or in the margins of it. The formulations suggest that we should understand consciousness as a kind of distinguished place. One can encounter formulations suggesting that consci ...
... our everyday language. So one may read that something appears in consciousness, something is in the field of consciousness, or in the margins of it. The formulations suggest that we should understand consciousness as a kind of distinguished place. One can encounter formulations suggesting that consci ...
RTF - UDC
... sets of signals are not "decoded", but coded again by the receiver into his or her own notional representations of the sender's intent. So I would like to venture that in human communication "decoding" never takes place. Speaker and hearer use not only different codes, but codes of a different natur ...
... sets of signals are not "decoded", but coded again by the receiver into his or her own notional representations of the sender's intent. So I would like to venture that in human communication "decoding" never takes place. Speaker and hearer use not only different codes, but codes of a different natur ...
Society for Ethnomusicology
... To explain means to account for observable phenomena in terms of their underlyingregularities,or principles(Hempel 1966). We might first note that one never explains something by previously assumingit. The difference between explaining and assuminglies in evidence. Explanations require empirical sup ...
... To explain means to account for observable phenomena in terms of their underlyingregularities,or principles(Hempel 1966). We might first note that one never explains something by previously assumingit. The difference between explaining and assuminglies in evidence. Explanations require empirical sup ...
From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the
... claims are problematic: the parity hypothesis is partially right – selection for parity is an important element in the construction of any communication system. The problem, of course, is that we know of no complex system of communication, in biology or elsewhere, which can be explained on the basis ...
... claims are problematic: the parity hypothesis is partially right – selection for parity is an important element in the construction of any communication system. The problem, of course, is that we know of no complex system of communication, in biology or elsewhere, which can be explained on the basis ...
LC-01 Introduction-0.. - Michigan State University
... The concept of “culture” is the central concept in the field of anthropology. Culture encompasses everything with which people organize and understand their lives. Because culture is socially constructed, it follows that different societies will have different ways in which they organize and underst ...
... The concept of “culture” is the central concept in the field of anthropology. Culture encompasses everything with which people organize and understand their lives. Because culture is socially constructed, it follows that different societies will have different ways in which they organize and underst ...
New Paths in the Linguistic Anthropology of Oceania
... 1994). They do so not only through the use of language in which propositional meaning is created, but also, and perhaps more significantly, through the semiotic working of language, where social actors use or interpret “contextualization cues” (Gumperz 1982, 1992), in particular those with indexical ...
... 1994). They do so not only through the use of language in which propositional meaning is created, but also, and perhaps more significantly, through the semiotic working of language, where social actors use or interpret “contextualization cues” (Gumperz 1982, 1992), in particular those with indexical ...
All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics
... and representation. Because we have discussed these and related concepts in detail elsewhere (Bucholtz and Hall 2004a, 2005) and elaborate on some of them further below, we will not explore each of them in depth here. However, it is worth highlighting that it is this remarkably broad and fertile the ...
... and representation. Because we have discussed these and related concepts in detail elsewhere (Bucholtz and Hall 2004a, 2005) and elaborate on some of them further below, we will not explore each of them in depth here. However, it is worth highlighting that it is this remarkably broad and fertile the ...
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity
... patterns in biodiversity. This body of work has made important advances and has much to offer researchers interested in other types of diversity. We focus here on the ways in which advances in ecology and evolutionary biology can support the analysis of drivers of linguistic diversity. There is an a ...
... patterns in biodiversity. This body of work has made important advances and has much to offer researchers interested in other types of diversity. We focus here on the ways in which advances in ecology and evolutionary biology can support the analysis of drivers of linguistic diversity. There is an a ...
Generative linguistics within the cognitive neuroscience of language
... patterns of asterisks (“stars”), question marks and percentage signs, indicating various judgments within or across native speakers about the examples. For the most part, these examples themselves do not constitute “data” in the usual sense from cognitive psychology; rather, they stand in for potent ...
... patterns of asterisks (“stars”), question marks and percentage signs, indicating various judgments within or across native speakers about the examples. For the most part, these examples themselves do not constitute “data” in the usual sense from cognitive psychology; rather, they stand in for potent ...
Chapter 7 The Language Of Thought
... How does connectionism argue against the language of thought? (123-4) According to Stainton, what are the 3 main features of the connectionist network? Why does Stainton believe that the language of thought hypothesis can defend itself against the criticism of it that is based on connectionist model ...
... How does connectionism argue against the language of thought? (123-4) According to Stainton, what are the 3 main features of the connectionist network? Why does Stainton believe that the language of thought hypothesis can defend itself against the criticism of it that is based on connectionist model ...
Some Principles on the use of Macro
... describe one fragment of history is a contribution that does not necessarily require describing every fragment of history. However, equally important are studies that are devoted to ruling out language contact as an explanation for some linguistic data in favour of a genealogical and/or universal ac ...
... describe one fragment of history is a contribution that does not necessarily require describing every fragment of history. However, equally important are studies that are devoted to ruling out language contact as an explanation for some linguistic data in favour of a genealogical and/or universal ac ...
Linguistic Anthropology in 2013: Super-New-Big AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST Angela Reyes Linguistic Anthropology
... and activism. Monica Heller (2013a), for example, examines the concept of “dis-citizenship” in Canada in which access to resources is framed within hegemonic ideologies about linguistic and social order. Jennifer Jackson (2013) explores political change and the reshaping of democracy by focusing on ...
... and activism. Monica Heller (2013a), for example, examines the concept of “dis-citizenship” in Canada in which access to resources is framed within hegemonic ideologies about linguistic and social order. Jennifer Jackson (2013) explores political change and the reshaping of democracy by focusing on ...